I am late, forgive me if this has already been said, To many responses to go gthrough
God made the stars for a purpose. To be a light in the night, and to offer direction..
What good would it do. if God put the stars in the sky, then had to wait billions of years for that light to get here for the job he created the to do.
Look at it this way, If God has the power to make a star out of nothing, He has the power to make its light defy the laws of science and appear on earth the day it was created.